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Facebook has announced a new feature for app developers. Starting today, you'll be able to create and use "Test User" accounts for testing your Facebook applications. With the new, API-controlled accounts, you'll be able to create ample test users wi...

Not all the news about Oracle and Java is bad today. Oracle and Apple are cozying up to work on OpenJDK, a FOSS implementation of the Java programming language, for Mac OS X. This news comes hot on the heels of Oracle's far-reaching lawsuit against G...

Heroku, the new platform-as-a-service hotness in app creation, has recently announced a partnership with Facebook. Heroku's Ruby-focused platform is already more than 99,000 apps strong. The startup's new Facebook App Package will help companies larg...

Like many awesome ideas, this one began with an xkcd strip. One developer has just created a bot that searches for specific kinds of inexpensive items in online auctions then buys the items for him. The concept comes from this strip from xkcd, a webc...

An increasing number of first-time mobile app developers are also first-time developers. This makes sense if you think about it; mobile is the hot new platform and the barrier to entry is a lot lower for mobile devices. Furthermore, a simple -- yet w...

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Some very interesting stats have just emerged about the freelance and contract market for CMS developers and designers. In its quarterly market report, freelance site DoNanza discovered that even though WordPress devs, designers and SEO pros are in g...

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Not long ago, we offered you 10 tips for PHP beginners from a panel of certifiable PHP experts. Many of you more ...

The next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 4.2, has gone gold and was released to developers, meaning the official version should reach the consumers' devices in a matter of weeks or even days. One of the biggest changes in iOS 4.2 is t...

Code for America, the refreshingly ambitious app project that brings city-changing technology to a handful of lucky communities, has just named 20 top developers to be fellows in the program this year. Throughout next year, these developers will conv...

PayPal has announced the launch of PayPal for Digital Goods, a checkout solution that lets users manage payments online with just two clicks. The company also announced a major partner: Facebook. The new product was revealed by PayPal VP Osama Bedier...

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. PHP is the language behind some of the most powerful and pervasive web applications around, including the ubiquit...

EA, one of the biggest video game publishers in the world, will support Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile phone platform with Xbox Live-enabled games starting this year. The first titles EA Mobile has announced include The Sims 3, Tetris, Monopoly a...

When tech bloggers discovered an icon for the popular mobile game Angry Birds in a Windows Phone 7 promotional image, it seemed like confirmation that the game is coming to Microsoft's smartphones, but the developers behind Angry Birds tweeted a deni...

Komodo 6, the latest version of a popular, multi-language IDE (integrated developer environment) from ActiveState, has just been released today. Among its features are support for HTML5 and CSS3; the new IDE also offers more support for Python 3, inc...

While companies from Google to Apple to Microsoft voice their ardent support for HTML5 and developers rush to show off the fun tricks it can do, those who actually oversee HTML5 are telling the world to cool their britches. As an official from the Wo...

Twitter has reworked the way its search works -- from an architectural standpoint, at least. Most end users shouldn't notice any differences just yet, but Twitter's search should now scale better, index more tweets per second and use less of Twitter'...

Foursquare was down for a grand total of 11 hours yesterday, all because of a pesky database shard. In a detailed post-mortem, a Foursquare engineer details the "embarrassing and disappointing" issues that brought the service to its knees and kept it...

Facebook Software Engineering Director Robert Johnson took some time to explain to a curious public exactly why Facebook went down earlier today, calling the mishap "the worst outage we’ve had in over four years." In a brief blog post, Johnson discus...

Happy Monday. Hey, Mondays can be happy! Case in point: You can start your Monday off with all the knowledge you need to stay ahead of the game in the worlds of social media, tech, social good, entertainment and more. We've rounded up these 15 storie...

So, you're not content with just using the social web; you want to be part of building it, too. As a budding or beginning web app developer, you've got a difficult but rewarding path ahead of you. You have to master (or at least attempt to master) th...

The young team behind Facebook alternative Diaspora has just released the project's source code, and in doing so, has put both the team and the scheme up for examination by an international (and often quite critical) group of peers. Developers have b...

As of 2 p.m. PT today, Facebook has opened its Places Read API for all developers. The Read API will scrape Facebook's data so your app can access a user's checkins and his or her friends' checkins, as well. You'll be able to grab all checkins made w...

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. As mobile OSes -- especially iPhone and Android -- wax and wane, the pressing question remains: How do you choose which mobile d...

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Today, Gowalla is making its checkin API available to all developers; this move will definitely lead to more and better third-party applications and might help the startup challenge its top competitor in the checkin space, Foursquare. The public Gowa...

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Everyone should know at least one woman who can code her way out of a wet paper bag. While women developers, computer programmer...

On Monday, a database hang-up on a long-running query was causing problems for both Twitter.com and the service's API, which in turn affected Twitter clients outside of the official website. The site has grown at an incredible rate since its inceptio...

Today, Google has announced the launch of the Google Buzz firehose, which will give developers access to all public activity published on Buzz via a single feed with real-time PubSubHubBub syndication. Google said the firehose was their most-requeste...

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. TextMate is one of the most used and well-loved applications for Mac OS X-based designers and developers. Even if it does look l...

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Sometimes, you have a little something to share, but because your "little something" is a snippet of code or a slice of design, the traditional tools for sharing don't quite fit the bill. That, and not all your online friends are going to be interest...

Twitter is beginning a preliminary run of annotations, a feature that will add an almost infinite range of data types to tweets. Developers building apps using Twitter's Streaming API will be the first to see the new functionality; end users may have...

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